Providing Good Clinical Supervision.

Providing Good Clinical Supervision is a clinical supervision training course, lasting either 2 days or 1 day, from APT, the UK's leading independent provider of training in mental health and related areas. We bring the training to your own organisation and train a group of 6-15 people.

Executive Summary:

Clinical supervision is a key concept that many people are unclear about. Unclear whether 'supervision' means that you should be ensuring that the supervisee is 'doing it right' or whether you should be providing a sounding board for the supervisee to develop their clinical thinking, or what. And many people are equally unsure about exactly what their professional body has to say about it, and where to find that out.

This course is designed to clear up all of the above by looking at what the professional bodies say about supervision, how to establish a competent supervision contract, and how to deliver on that contract. The aim is, therefore, that by the end of the course you will both (a) know about clinical supervision and (b) be good at providing it.

The course aims:

To give you the knowledge of what supervision is, what it aims to achieve, and how this is best achieved.

To acquaint you with the idea that there are different models of supervision, and introduce you to one that gives you the best chance of success.

To give you the skill and resources to to set up good contracts with your supervisees.

To give you the skill and resources to reliably deliver on the contracts, repeatedly and reliably.

To acquaint you with the relevant legal and ethical issues involved in supervision.

What the course covers - the syllabus:

Definitions, purpose, boundaries and tasks of clinical supervision: just what is it?

What do professional bodies say is required?

Models of supervision.*

The structure of supervision: setting it up right. Pros and cons of the line manager and the clinical supervisor being the same person; frequency, duration, etc; clinical responsibility.

Forming a supervision contract: how and why. Includes video demo.

Practical exercise on contracting.

Delivering the contract well. What makes for good and bad supervision? What works especially well in supervision, what are the pitfalls to avoid?

Supervising the supervisor. The buck never stops quite where you think it does.

Video of delivery of supervision, and associated exercise.

Legal and ethical issues and responsibilities.*

Trouble-shooting. Conflicts and other problems.*

Finale exercise, including inter-group quiz.

Registration, wind-down and feedback.

* There is significantly less coverage of this topic on the 1-day course than on the 2-day.

What the course will do for you:

You will have confidence that you know what you are meant to do, and not do, as a supervisor; you will know what supervision is meant to be.

You will know what people are talking about when they refer to models of supervision, and be confident that you have a model that is a good one.

You will have the skill (and the downloadable resources) to set up contracts with your supervisees so that everyone knows where they are and what is expected of them.

You will have the skill (and the downloadable resources) to deliver on the contracts you establish.

You will have the confidence that you know about - and can therefore feel relaxed about - the legal and ethical issues involved in supervision.

What you receive as a result of attending the training:

You will be registered as having attended the course, thereby gaining APT's Level 1 accreditation, and receive a certificate to this effect. The accreditation gives you access to online resources associated with the course.

Your registration lasts indefinitely, and your accreditation lasts for 3 years and is renewable by sitting an online refresher which also upgrades your accreditation to APT Level 2 if you are successful in the associated online exam.

Your accreditation is given value by the fact of over 100,000 people having attended APT training. See APT accreditation for full details.

How can I access this training?

Option 1: Bring the course to your organisation:

We bring this course to your own organisation for a fixed, all-inclusive fee of £3,050 plus VAT (2-day course) or £1,750 plus VAT (1-day course). These are inclusive prices and up to 15 people to attend.

If you or a colleague are a senior professional and have a talent for communication and teaching, then you are welcome to apply to become a licensed APT tutor. You could then tutor the course - or your chosen modules from it - in your own organisation, under license.

This is not only a highly appropriate use of senior professionals, but it also saves your organisation the tutor-component of the fee (around 50%) each time you run it or your chosen modules.

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As a bona fide APT event, this course automatically has accreditation from The Association for Psychological Therapies. This means (i) that it contains the right amount of relevant information for its duration, and (ii) the information is presented in an engaging way, and in a way that will make it likely to be used after the course. APT verifies the accreditation by publishing the delegates' average ratings of relevance and presentation-quality for all its accredited courses. The accreditation is given value by over 100,000 professionals having attended APT courses.

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Feedback Ratings.

We continuously monitor the quality of our training by obtaining feedback on the two key scales of relevance and presentation from every course delegate. Below are the average ratings for the last ten runnings of this course.

Average Presentation rating: 97%

Average Relevance rating: 95%

*These statistics were last updated in April 2017.

Written Feedback.

APT prides itself on the feedback we receive about our courses. Below are just some of the great comments the Providing Good Clinical Supervision course has received.

“Just about everything has been of benefit to me as a supervisor (and supervisee). I would recommend this course unreservedly.”

"An exceptionally well delivered course which was wonderfully facilitated by the tutor. Depth and breadth of information that I will be able to take forward and introduce within my own occupational environment. Thank you, a great and valuable course."